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Politics
Fred Onyango

20 states fight back after Donald Trump throws disaster victims under the bus with illegal FEMA cuts

The Trump administration has been taken back to federal court over his inability to respect the separation of power, with 20 states this time combining and filing a major lawsuit in Massachusetts against the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), challenging Trump’s elimination of the Congress-approved grant to help guard communities against natural disaster.

The Texas Hill Country flooding situation has already caused immense pressure on Kristi Noem for making FEMA’s job just a little bit more complex by her decision to cut the employees who were working the emergency call centers. But apparently, that’s not even where the cuts began. According to a report released by CNN, the Trump administration announced that it was unilaterally ending the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Program in April.

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